We are assured, that he was (482) overheard asking him, “if he knew for what reason he had in the late appointment, made Metius Rufus governor of Egypt?”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "To err is human, to forgive divine"; "A little learning is a dangerous thing,"--these lines, and many more like them from the same source, have found their way into our common speech, and are used, without thinking of the author, whenever we need an apt quotation.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The latter are much more likely to fall within the scope of the physician than sense-illusions, but at the same time many of them have to be determined upon by the lawyer, inasmuch as they really occur to normal people or to such whose disease is just beginning so that the physician can not yet reach it.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The peasants, nonplussed, kept silent; and the white, placid, well-groomed statue seemed to look at M. Massarel with its plaster smile, ineffaceable and sarcastic.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Such earthly catastrophes as fame, being made General, the change from comfort to living above my means, acquaintance with high society, have scarcely touched me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Wasn't that like a man?" "Mistress Booth IS mighty pretty, and brown's her color," said Captain Jim reflectively.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The moment it had passed their lips, he fell down among them like a murdered man.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Her wrath in vain, that year it was her fate To live a mourning mother, desolate.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

She also sent out many appealing letters, like this to her friend Mrs. Wright: Mrs. Stanton and I start for Kansas Wednesday evening, stopping at Rochester just to look at my mother and my dear sister, sick so long, and I devoting scarce an hour to her the whole year.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

A copy of the Leipziger Volkszeitung of March 20 tells how, in a discussion of the Lichnowsky and Mühlon memoranda before the Main Committee of the Reichstag on March 16, Vice Chancellor von Payer tried to minimize the value of Dr. Mühlon's statements by asserting that the former Krupp Director was a sick, nervous man who no doubt did not intend to injure his country's cause, but who was hardly responsible for his actions because of his many nervous breakdowns.
— from Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

She goes out late last night, and roams about the garden, and comes in wet through and through, and says she must come to London about money matters.
— from Aurora Floyd, Vol. 2 Fifth Edition by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

[114] So far from setting aside the authority of the synoptics on "subjective" grounds, I have taken a great deal of trouble to show that my non-belief in the story is based upon what appears to me to be evident; firstly, that the accounts of the three synoptic Gospels are not independent, but are founded upon a common source; secondly, that, even if the story of the common tradition proceeded from a contemporary, it would still be Page 445 worthy of very little credit, seeing the manner in which the legends about mediæval miracles have been propounded by contemporaries.
— from Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

The first of these methods is a method of induction, merely; the last a mixed method of induction and ratiocination.
— from Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

The danger to society, he had come to think, was an approaching war against property, and his hope was to unite the rich of both classes in defence against the landless and moneyless multitudes.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude

On their left, and many miles inland of them, a long blue range of hills stretched unbrokenly, cutting them off from the centre of Borneo, while here and there an isolated mountain reared its peak into the sky.
— from With the Dyaks of Borneo: A Tale of the Head Hunters by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

A few blotches of black showed that they were passing over the Lancashire and Midland manufacturing towns; then the clouds became scarcer and an enormous landscape spread out beneath them, intersected by white roads and black lines of railways, and dotted by big patches of woods, long lines of hedgerows and clumps of trees on hilltops.
— from The World Peril of 1910 by George Chetwynd Griffith

Thou knowest its trick of going out in the middle of the evening; and it will be a truly laughable and melancholy mishap, if it should suddenly leave them in darkness, at the most critical moment.
— from Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 (of 2) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The latter, and many more afterwards, were sent over by a young man named Alfred Brown, who had a curious history.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Then she roused herself, and went on to speak of the arrangement which had been agreed upon between the lawyer and Mr. Montague Jones about the furniture, and which only needed her signature to be settled.
— from A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends by May Baldwin